I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.
Richard AttenboroughI do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
Richard AttenboroughWell, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
Richard AttenboroughI came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
Richard AttenboroughI do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.
Richard AttenboroughAt my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
Richard AttenboroughWhen asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.
Richard AttenboroughAnd there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
Richard AttenboroughPier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
Richard AttenboroughIf you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
Richard AttenboroughAnd that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.
Richard AttenboroughI believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
Richard AttenboroughIf you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."
Richard AttenboroughOn my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
Richard AttenboroughIn other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
Richard AttenboroughWhat I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
Richard AttenboroughI just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
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